To Pot Salmon

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
Status
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (12)
Salmon preparation
Other fish options
Instructions (8)
  1. Scale the salmon and wipe it clean.
  2. Season the salmon with Jamaica pepper, black pepper, mace, and cloves (all beaten fine), mixed with salt. Beat sal prunella fine and rub the bone with it.
  3. Season the salmon with a little of the spice mixture.
  4. Pour clarified butter over the salmon.
  5. Bake the salmon well.
  6. Carefully take the salmon out and let it drain.
  7. Once cold, season the salmon well.
  8. Lay the salmon in the pot, close, and cover it with clarified butter.
Original Text
To Pot Salmon. TAKE a piece of freſh ſalmon, ſcale it, and wipe it clean (let your piece, or pieces, be as big as will lie cleverly in your pot) ſeaſon it with Jamaica pepper, black pepper, mace, and cloves beat fine, mix'd with ſalt, a little ſal prunella beat fine, and rub the bone with. Seaſon with a little of the ſpice, pour clarified butter over it, and bake it well. Then take it out carefully, and lay it to drain; when cold, ſeaſon it well, lay it in your pot cloſe, and cover it with clarified butter as above. Thus you may do carp, tench, trout, and ſeveral ſorts of fiſh.
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